Ten years on since Liv and Maddie's pilot episode aired
STEVENS POINT, WI and LOS ANGELES, CA – It has been ten years since Disney Channel's popular teen drama series Liv and Maddie aired a very first episode "Twin-A-Rooney". The series since then became one of the most watched shows throughout mid 2010s (until it ended on late March 2017), alongside Disney Channel's rival show KC Undercover and two Nickelodeon shows The Thundermans and Make It Pop. The series is famously known for Dove Cameron's dual roles as the twins Liv and Maddie Rooney as well as acting debuts for Joey Bragg (who starred in 2021's Call Your Mother) and Tenzing Norgay Trainor (who currently starred in 2023 Netflix original series Freeridge).
- Series summary
The series centers the life of twin sisters Liv and Maddie Rooney alongside her parents Pete and Karen Rooney and their younger brother Joey and Parker Rooney. Liv has just returned home after spent four years in Hollywood performing in her musical show called Sing It Loud!. During her days at her hometown in Wisconsin, the Rooney siblings attended the Ridgewood High School, where the twins are in 11th grade, Joey is in 10th grade and Parker in 6th grade. The siblings are also in relationships during Ridgewood days: Liv with Holden, Maddie with either Diggie or Josh, and Joey with Willow. They also met new friends like Andie Bustamante and Dump Truck. Due to her popularity gains, Liv stars in films and series such as Space Werewolf as Tristan Lykan (end of season 1) and Voltage as Skyvolt (near end of season 3).
However, the boiling point happened in the season 3 finale, when Maddie accepted her scholarship from SCSU, Liv gets furious with Maddie and forced to let Maddie go to California without goodbye. Liv then changed her mind and apologized Maddie for betraying her. As the result, the twins along with the family (except Pete) moved to California after Deckard Shaw destroyed their family's Wisconsin house.
When Liv prepared to perform in a live musical show called Sing It Live!!!, she's diagnosed with vocal nodules. As the result, the doctors advised her not to perform in the live musical, but she ignored it. She performs "My Destiny" in front of millions of television viewers, but after she sung, she started to lost her voices and immediately taken to the hospital for surgery which required ten days to recover. After the surgery is successful, Liv recovered with her better singing voices.
- Star of the show: Dove Cameron
Dove Cameron who we know today is currently in the black hair with fierce characteristics, thanks to her breakout single "Boyfriend" and being queer and bisexual; but when filming Liv and Maddie as the twins, she was in the blonde with cute imageries. She used Emmy Buckner and Shelby Wulfert as her doubles. Dove also mentioned that her charcaters Liv and Maddie are also bisexual/queer, because Liv being in relationship with boys like Miller White and Holden Dippledorf as well as with girls like Kathy Kan and Andie Bustamante; while Maddie being in relationship with boys like Diggie and Josh as well as with girls like Willow and Val.
liv was bi https://t.co/BHrOiQmGzw
— Dove Cameron (@DoveCameron) October 7, 2020
- Top songs from the showmaddie was definitely gay https://t.co/qC6OKhBVig
— Dove Cameron (@DoveCameron) October 7, 2020
1. "Better In Stereo"
The theme song of the show signifies the strong sisterhood of Liv and Maddie throughout the series.
2. "True Love"
This romantic love song sees how strong the relationship of couples like Liv and Holden, Maddie and Diggie, Maddie and Josh, Willow and Joey, Andie and Dump Truck, Gemma and Johnny, as well as Parker and Val. The song has three versions: Liv's solo version, Holden's solo version, and the duet version. Diggie also performed the song, but it was never released.
3. "What A Girl Is"
The song has two versions: Liv's solo version featured in season 2 episode "Rate-A-Rooney" to judge every look of female characters on the show; another version is Liv featuring The Voice contestant Christina Grimmie (although Christina did not appear in the show).
4. "Froyo YOLO"
In this song, Liv expressed her interest of enjoying a frozen yougurt, however Liv hated that song due to wrong reasons, despite getting viral.
5. "Count Me In"
Similar to "Better In Stereo", the song also sees how strong the twins relationship. "Count Me In" marks the first song co-written by Dove Cameron herself.
- Plans for movie adaptation and spin-offs
The show creators John D. Beck and Ron Hart once planned to put the series into a possible movie adaptation or spin-off, however those plans are currently not happening. We will wait if Beck & Hart Productions will soon green-lighting for the production of the movie or spin-off based on the show.
Happy tenth anniversary to our beloved show, Liv and Maddie! And happy Bam! What? day!
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